The Book of Roads: Travel Stories from Michigan to Marrakech

by Phil Cousineau, Larry Habegger

Cousineau’s wanderlust has driven him to visit nearly 100 countries as a backpacker, documentary filmmaker, travel writer, photographer, and art and literary tour leader. For him, travel gives us what his mentor Joseph Campbell called “the key to the realm of the muses.”

As author of the best-selling travel book The Art of Pilgrimage, Cousineau continues to crisscross the world as a travel writer, filmmaker, and host of Global Spirit.

The Book of Roads: Travel Stories from Michigan to Marrakech is the culmination of a lifetime of travel experiences, from the steel factories of Detroit to headhunting villages in the Philippines, the war-torn villages in the Balkans to the river roads of Canada once traversed by his voyageur ancestors. His rhapsodic travel stories place him in the league of fellow travelers who are also masterful writers, such as Pico Iyer, Jack Kerouac, Jan Morris, and Beryl Markham.

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About the author Phil Cousineau

PHIL COUSINEAU is a freelance writer, filmmaker, photographer, art and literary tour leader, creativity consultant, flâneur, and nyctophiliac, a lifelong lover of the night. Cousineau has published over thirty books, which have been translated into numerous languages; earned twenty-five documentary film writing credits; and contributed to 50 other books. His previous books include Wordcatcher, which was named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by NPR, and...

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Books by Phil Cousineau

Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey Into Day

The Book of Roads: Travel Stories from Michigan to Marrakech

The Painted Word: A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins

Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words

About the author Larry Habegger

Larry Habegger is a writer, editor, journalist, and teacher who has been covering the world since his international travels began in the 1970s. As a freelance writer for three decades and syndicated columnist since 1985, his work has appeared in many major newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Travel & Leisure, and Outside. In 1993 he co-founded the award-winning Traveler's Tales Books with James and Tim...

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Books by Larry Habegger

The Book of Roads: Travel Stories from Michigan to Marrakech